From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 26 1:23:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dpx20.tu-varna.acad.bg (unknown [194.12.234.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2933915351 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 01:23:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@www.koral.bg) Received: from www.bgzone.com (ns.bgzone.com [194.12.235.81]) by dpx20.tu-varna.acad.bg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA05986; Wed, 26 May 1999 11:16:42 +0300 Received: from www.koral.bg (koral [194.12.235.94]) by www.bgzone.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA00470; Wed, 26 May 1999 10:16:47 +0300 (EEST) Received: from www (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.koral.bg (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA00395; Wed, 26 May 1999 10:31:22 +0300 (EEST) Message-Id: <199905260731.KAA00395@www.koral.bg> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Johnny F. Morris" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XF86 - Gray screen In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 May 1999 17:55:10 PDT." <199905252255.RAA23456@venus.hiline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 10:31:22 +0300 From: Charlie Root Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try to change VertRefresh from 50 - 120 to 50 - 70. > I've already tried that...nothing happens. > > Johnny > > At 05:44 PM 5/25/99 -0500, you wrote: > >Hi, > > > > You should try cntrl_alt_+ and cntrl_alt_-, (plus and minus signs) these > >will change your resolution. > > > >Ales > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: Johnny F. Morris > >To: > >Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 7:39 PM > >Subject: XF86 - Gray screen > > > > > >> I've recently installed XFree86 and thought I had everything set correctly > >> but apparently not. > >> When I launch X the screen turns gray, the mouse begins working but > >nothing > >> ever comes > >> up on the monitor. > >> > >> I think I have my monitor settings correct. > >> HorizSync 30 - 66 > >> VertRefresh 50 - 120 > >> and several different modelines are available. > >> > >> Is there an error log for X I can check? > >> > >> BTW...when I ran the xf86config program it went fine and at the end popped > >> up a window saying > >> "Congratulations...your server is running" but after I exit from that and > >> then try to actually start > >> the X program it just goes into that gray limbo mode and I end up > >> cntrl+alt+bkspce after waiting > >> several minutes. > >> > >> Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated. > >> Johnny > >> > >> > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message